Art & Design

To usher in the next century of the National Museum of Asian Art, artist Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, South Korea) was commissioned to create a special edition of his work Public Figures to be installed in front of the museum and facing the National .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

To inaugurate its 50th-anniversary season, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, a major survey of artwork made during a transformative period characterized .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Japan’s rich history of ceramic artistry developed in large part alongside the culture of drinking tea. Chanoyu (literally, “hot water for tea”), or the practice of preparing and serving matcha, powdered green tea, gained popularity in the .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s reopened and reimagined modern and contemporary galleries feature a new installation, American Voices and Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art, that freshly examines the explosion of possibility in American.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

The National Museum of Asian Art opened in 1923, becoming the first art museum on the National Mall. At the museum, we continually renew our commitment to the communities represented by the works in our collections and to the peoples who made .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

The Art of Knowing brings together highlights from our collections to explore religious and practical knowledge across time, space, and cultures. Featuring stone sculptures, gilt bronzes, and painted manuscripts from India, Nepal, Tibet, .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

The life size portrait of Abraham Lincoln by W.F.K. Travers joins the America's Presidents exhibition. Created from life in 1865, the 9-foot-tall oil on canvas is one of three known, life-size paintings of the 16th president. The historic work .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.